10 Recent Movies NOBODY Saw Coming

Just when you thought slapstick comedy was dead at the box office, along came the deliriously, deliciously old-school Hundreds of Beavers to prove otherwise. Produced for just $150,000, this black-and-white film about a man who goes to war with a seemingly never-ending fleet of aggressive beavers is absolutely wild.

Combining seat-of-the-pants live-action filmmaking - where the beavers are all portrayed by actors in costumes - with cartoonish visual effects, the end result is a lovingly handmade piece of work, the sort which most would expect to go direct to YouTube or, if lucky, a paid streaming service.

But Hundreds of Beavers picked up enough acclaim on the festival circuit that the filmmakers were actually able to successfully self-distribute it theatrically, where it went on to gross $783,000 worldwide - a major return on its initial budget.

This is a film that truly feels like an anomaly, like it fell out of another era altogether, and with so much of modern cinema being defined by soulless IP-mining slop, that's nothing but the highest compliment.